# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/merle-eugene-curti
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:45:06.543Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/merle-eugene-curti"
name: "Merle Eugene Curti"
slug: "merle-eugene-curti"
description: "Merle Eugene Curti was an American progressive historian who influenced peace studies, intellectual history and social history, including by using cliometrics. At Columbia University and for decades at the University of Wisconsin, Curti directed 86 finished Ph.D. dissertations and had a wide range of correspondents. He was known for his commitment to democracy, as well as the Turnerian thesis that social and economic forces shape American life, thought and character."
tagline: "American historian (1897–1996)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1897-09-15"
deathDate: "1996-03-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.78
  momentum:             10.61538461538461
  historical:           7.011448
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Merle_Curti"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%89"
    title: "ميرل يوجين كورتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Curti"
    title: "Merle Curti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Curti"
    title: "Merle Curti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Curti"
    title: "Merle Curti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Curti"
    title: "Merle Curti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB"
    title: "Курти, Мерл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A2%85%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E6%9F%AF%E8%92%82"
    title: "梅尔·柯蒂"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q787077"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump